Kathleen Biggar Eaton Cannell, sometimes called Kitty, is best known for her affair with Harold Loeb, which is satirized in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926). Hemingway depicts her as Frances Clyne, an ill-tempered, desperate woman, but the portrait is unjustified. For most of her life, she was a financially independent journalist, working as the Paris fashion editor for the New York Times from 1931 to 1941 and as the ballet critic for the Christian Science Monitor for many years thereafter. Although sometimes Cannell said that she was born in Utica, New York, her autobiography, Jam Yesterday (1945), says that she was born in the Fort George section of New York City. She later lived in Port Ontario, Canada, Philadelphia, and Paris, where she studied French at the Sorbonne. In 1921, she was in Paris awaiting a divorce from her husband, the poet Skipwith Cannell, when Alfred Kreymborg introduced her to Harold...